{"id":64486,"date":"2020-09-14T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=64486"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:29:31","slug":"professor-lawrence-were-selected-as-ctsi-kl2-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/professor-lawrence-were-selected-as-ctsi-kl2-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Lawrence Were Selected as CTSI KL2 Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BU Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI)<\/a> selected Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Lawrence Were<\/a> as a 2020 KL2 Scholar<\/a>. The KL2 Program supports outstanding researchers for their efforts in developing novel solutions focused on clinical and translational research.<\/p>\n

CTSI\u2019s KL2 program is a mentored career development program for BU\u2019s most promising junior faculty and translational researchers. KL2 scholars participate in independent multidisciplinary research including researchers and mentors from at least two diverse disciplines.<\/p>\n

\"\"Were’s research focuses on the application of health economics in the estimation of\u00a0 impact of reforms within healthcare systems and health insurance programs on the outcomes of marginalized and high-risk populations, such as informal traders and HIV+ individuals, including pregnant women and their children. His research projects in Kenya, Ghana, and Nepal focus on global health and HIV\/AIDS financing mechanisms, complex emergencies and disasters, and the geo-spatial aspects of public health.<\/p>\n

Were was awarded his KL2 Fellowship for his project, “Health Insurance, Hospitalizations, and Decision Making Among HIV\/TB Co-infected.”\u00a0 He seeks to gain expertise in \u201cbig data\u201d evaluation of the long-term impacts of health insurance on HIV hospitalizations, costs of HIV co-infection, and insurance enrollment decision-making for HIV+ persons. This will involve the consolidation of novel data sources (e.g., longitudinal household surveys, electronic medical records (EMR), claims data) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and linking these datasets to study access to healthcare and health care decision making for marginalized and at-risk populations, with a focus on HIV treatment and prevention.<\/p>\n

Were, who is also an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the BU School of Public Health<\/a> and a Faculty Associate at the Pardee Center<\/a>, teaches courses in Comparative Healthcare Systems, Global Health, Social Determinants of Health, and Research Methods. He co-runs a summer study- abroad program in Accra, Ghana. He received his PhD in Health Services Research (HSR) \u2013 Health Economics track from the Department of Health Services Policy & Practice (HSPP) at Brown University\u2019s School of Public Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BU Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) selected Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Lawrence Were as a 2020 KL2 Scholar. The KL2 Program supports outstanding researchers for their efforts in developing novel solutions focused on clinical and translational research. CTSI\u2019s KL2 program is a mentored career development program for BU\u2019s most promising junior faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":50562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5146,5166,5144,5145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64486"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64704,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64486\/revisions\/64704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}